Profoundly shaped by the events, forces, and overflow of todays disjointed, social-media-heavy life, these artists paintings are disrupted stylistically, thematically, or sometimes both. n n They allow us to appreciate how art relates to the super-fast, simultaneous, almost dizzyingly paced scrolling of our lives. n n - Foreword by artist Nicholas Wilton, founder of Art2Life n n - Features a special essay on artist Jenny Saville, who has inspired many contemporary representational artists to disrupt their art n n n - More than half of the artists are from outside the US; includes women and BIPOC artists n n - Artists comments presented in an engaging question-and-answer style n n - Artists include Casey Baugh, Jenny Saville, Joseph Lee, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Justin Mortimer, and dozens more - Art writer and curator John Seed is the foremost authority on disrupted realism and is the author of Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World nn